Florida’s Republican candidate for governor hangs out with a guy who insulted Pulse victims

Cementing is extremist stance, Florida’s Republican candidate for governor, Ron DeSantis, shared the stage last Friday with Raynard Jackson, a right-wing strategist and pundit known for his anti-LGBT views.

DeSantis shared the stage with Jackson at a Black Professionals summit in Miami. Jackson took that moment to shout at a woman who asked DeSantis about the school-to-prison pipeline – the discorporate tendency of disadvantaged people, mostly of color, to end up incarcerated due to harsh school policies.

Some difficult moments in Ron DeSantis last 305 stop of the day, Black Professionals Summit…Panel Host Raynard Jackson & an insistent audience member go at it over her Q&A interruption…What could have been a bonding event ends in tension…@WPLGLocal10pic.twitter.com/JyXtwHMYCt

Meanwhile, DeSantis is no stranger to his own controversies. In August, right after the Florida primary, DeSantis warned people to not “monkey this up” by electing his opponent, Andrew Gillum. Gillum is black.